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The EPUG-UKI Conference 2010 at the British Library on 1-2 November drew
more than 150 participants to a highly successful two days of
presentations and workshop sessions, focusing on applications from
across the Ex Libris product suite. The full programme of plenaries and
breakouts can still be reviewed on the conference web site:

To
help plan future events, the EPUG-UKI would really welcome your
feedback. If you attended either or both days of the conference, please
take 3-4 minutes to complete the feedback form on the conference
website:

*
If you already have a JISCMail password, Login - using your registered
email address and your password - and you will be resolved to the
EPUG-UKI list page as a logged in user

* If you use your
institutional username and password (using Shibboleth) to access
JISCMail, choose the Institutional Log on link and log in to JISCMail as
normal; then click on this EPUG-UKI link to be resolved directly to the
EPUG-UKI list page as a logged in user

* From there, choose the
Files Area link from the JISCMail Tools menu (on the right-hand side of
the screen) and select the 2010_Conference folder

Only one or
two presentations have not yet been uploaded – but these will be added
in the next few days as definitive versions are received from the
presenters concerned.

If you encounter any problems using the feedback form or accessing the uploaded presentation files, please get in touch.

For
those of you already planning your 2011 calendars, I’ll finish by
mentioning that the next EPUG-UKI one-day meeting (which incorporates
the AGM) will be held at the British Library Conference Centre, London
on 29 March 2011. More information on this meeting will be circulated in
the new year.

The full programme for the first two-day EPUG-UKI Conference (being held at the British Library Conference Centre, London on 1-2 November 2010) has now been confirmed. The programme can be viewed on the conference web site (where a downloadable version is also available):

As well as plenary presentations focusing on integrated search and discovery environments based on PRIMO and PRIMO Central; the co-ordinated implementation of a range of Ex Libris solutions; and the connections between ALEPH, Voyager, SFX and a ‘Resource List’ application (and more besides); there will be themed breakout strands covering products from across the Ex Libris suite.

The focus of the two-days will be on customer led sessions, but alongside this will be presentations from a number of Ex Libris colleagues including: Christine Stohn (SFX Product Manager); Mike Dicus (Voyager Product Manager); Shelley Hostetler (Director, NA Aleph and Global Voyager Support); Yoel Kortick (Ex Libris, Aleph Support Team Leader); Axel Kaschte (Ex Libris Strategy Director Europe) and Alan Oliver (Ex Libris, Business Development Director Europe).

Attendance at the conference is free to all library, technical and other staff members whose institutions are current members of the Ex Libris User Group (United Kingdom and Ireland).

Registration for the conference remains open until Thursday 21 October. To sign up to attend, complete the short online form on the conference web site:

Attendance at the conference is open to all EPUG-UKI member sites at no additional cost and there is no fixed limit on the number of participants that any one institution can send (venue capacity permitting).

Venue

Details of the location of the conference venue can be found on the British Library web site:

More details will be added to the conference web site in the coming days and weeks. If you've a question to ask, please use the contact form on the conference site. If you're interested in offering a presentation, or helping to organise one of the product sessions, please get in touch in the same way.

Registration for the EPUG-UKI conference 2010 will open soon. Attendance at the conference is open to all members of EPUG-UKI insitutions. There will be no additional charge for attending the conference and (dependent on the spaces being available) there will be no limit on the number of attendees for any one institution. Morning and afternoon refreshment and lunch will be provided on both days.

The majority of the sessions at the conference will be presented by the customers of Ex Libris product in the UK and Ireland. The intention is to reflect the breadth of the entire Ex Libris product suite as far as is possible, incorporating presentations on ALEPH, Digitool, MetaLib, PRIMO, SFX, Verde and Voyager. There would also be space for cross-product sessions at well, looking at how Ex Libris' products integrate with other technologies and applications. The EPUG-UKI Committee is asking for volunteers from within the EPUG-UKI community to take on responsibility for assembling individual product sessions (which will vary in length between 2-5 sessions across the two days). If you would be interested either in taking on the task of organising a product strand, or would be interested in presenting at the conference, please get in touch.